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Like, imagine you couldn't ever clear out your email inbox

This is social media

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Mastodon issue tracker is where dreams go to die

Informed consent? Never heard of it!

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i

but uhh, number go up, so surely everyone wants to publicly expose more data, even with `AUTHORIZED_FETCH` and `DISALLOW_UNAUTHENTICATED_API_ACCESS`

@Cyborgneticz it's a sad song from a very sad album but Ex:Re - The Dazzler encapsulates 'the cheap thrills of hotels' well youtube.com/watch?v=vNP06Su1WC

re: quote tweets 

@yuka what do you mean? requests are signed so they're verifiable to a remote instance, and if you block them (or have something like an allowlist that doesn't include them) the request won't succeed

re: quote tweets 

@Cyborgneticz yeah...
we're cautiously researching them for GoToSocial, but we'll only implement something in this vein if we're absolutely sure it's good, and keep community in the loop

quote tweets 

while I get that it's a possible harassment vector, it seems only marginally easier than sharing a link or a screenshot of a toot?

something i think properly implemented QTs would add though is that they can re-use the toot-dereference/signing logic a boost has for example, so a remote instance you have blocked still won't be able to quote toot you, or see the toot a qt is referring too (because it always has to contact your instance for the content, and it'll just say no

re: Severance vague spoilers, detailed descriptions of sui irl 

@kim god that's horrifying. warning for Severance too, it's a great show put a specific scene could definitely be a similar trigger

re: Ableism, about masking, Discusses use of other disabled folks to advocate against masks 

@MerlinJStar@weirder.earth I think people who genuinely care would also already know about competing/conflicting access needs, and work towards actual solutions instead of just going "guess we can't mask at all oh noo what a shame"

As a bit of extra background: I've been professionally auditing (probably thousands of) FOSS dependencies for years now, in a high-risk environment, and *not once* have I run across deliberately malicious code, not even questionably broken code, really.

Every single issue so far has been a security issue, none that were likely to be disguised backdoors. Many of them very common security issues that most developers are likely to create themselves when reinventing wheels (eg. when avoiding dependencies out of a misguided fear of malicious code).

That's where the *real* risk is.

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This also feels like one of those cases of the metaphorical-law-I-forgot-the-name-of, where people perceive an uncommon event as being really common because it's so uncommon that it gets widely reported every time it happens, and therefore skews people's perception of its frequency

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I was watching cat pov videos and realized there's literally a video game for this

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@polyfloyd dad goes on a camping retreat to think up more dad jokes, panickedly calls family, bear with me here

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